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Updated: May 26, 2025
"'Why, then, can you find no rest in the grave? "This last question 'broke the camel's back. "'H to my There, the Lord forgive me for cursin', and in this blessed an' howly place. But are all the people mad prastes and clarks, payrents and childher? Or am I losin' my sinses, or enchanted by the fairies? "'Matthew, said the priest, solemnly, 'are you alive an' well?
"And then the goat gave him another degree, and Pa pulled off the towel and got up and started for the stairs, and so did the goat, and Ma was at the bottom of the stairs listening, and when I looked over the banisters Pa and Ma and the goat were all in a heap, and Pa was yelling murder, and Ma was screaming fire, and the goat was blatting, and sneezing, and bunting, and the hired girl came into the hall and the goat took after her and she crossed herself just as the goat struck her and said, 'Howly mother, protect me! and went down stairs the way we boys slide down hill, with both hands on herself, and the goat rared up and blatted, and Pa and Ma went into their room and shut the door, and then my chum and me opened the front door and drove the goat out.
They all tried to squeeze through the back door at once, which proceeding resulted in an athletic scrimmage, and a final burst of kicking humanity into Eliza's kitchen. "Howly saints! but ye're the noisy bunch!" was Eliza's greeting, and then she bade them hurry upstairs and tidy themselves for supper. Marjorie and Kitty occupied the room that had been Marjorie's the summer before.
It was her heart's delight to drink tea with the young ladies. "And how is the poor gintleman, Mr. Edwin, I mean?" "He's getting better every day, Mrs. Murphy." "And I'm that glad to hear the news. It would have been a sad day for the poor young lady if she had lost him though, may the Howly Mother forgive me for saying it, she's not good enough for the loikes of him, I'm thinkin'."
"He insulted me some time ago, and I want to be revenged upon him." "It's a dear job to insult you, at that rate, squire; but where does he live?" "In my neighbourhood in fact, next door to me," replied Mr. Stevens, with an averted face. "Howly Mother! not away up there sure it's crazy ye are.
I'd boil 'em alive, sor, or roast 'em in the stoke-hold, begorrah, if I had me own way with 'em. I would, sor, so hilp me Moses, if all the howly saints, whose names be praised, an' the blessed ould Pope, too, prayed me to spare 'em. Och, the murtherin' bastes, the daymans, the divvles!" He was almost beside himself in his rage and passionate invective.
At this instant Tim O'Rooney came opposite them. He merely glanced up, puffed harder than ever and was passing on, when both burst out in a loud laugh. "Be the powers! what's the mather with ye spalpeens?" he angrily demanded. "Can't a dacent man be passing the sthrats widout being insulted Howly mother! is it yerselves or is it your grandfathers?"
I say I believed I was right to-night I believe I was wrong it don't matter how I came to the conclusion, but I've changed my mind. I have come to-night to make restitution. I am ready to pay you ninety cents more on every dollar of stock you sold me at that time." Biddy gasped: "Howly Saints!" Dan leaped up with a wild hurrah. "Listen to that now!" he cried, with other incoherences.
"Oh, be jabers! ye'd laste expect to find thim where I seed thim." "Well, tell us." "Yes, tell us," said the Doctor. "Well," he hesitatingly said, "be the howly shmoke, the ould chambermaid has thim on, as sure as I'm a loive Irishman!" "Oh, nonsense!" I replied.
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